And of course, being the T, they're only fitting them to 40 married pairs out of a fleet of hundreds. So come wintertime, they'll have Chicago-style miniplows, but half of them will be OOS and the rest will be sandwiched in the middle or at the trailing ends of consists, leaving the cars ahead of them to clear the snow with their traction motors.

This'll be worth bragging over only when the plows are fitted fleetwide, the way every other system that uses miniplows does it.

This is a trial set, made by Everett shops. It means they can send specifically those cars out to do all-night clearing, which is a big plus. If the plows are successful, then more will be fabricated by outside shops.

The EGE wrote:This is a trial set, made by Everett shops. It means they can send specifically those cars out to do all-night clearing, which is a big plus. If the plows are successful, then more will be fabricated by outside shops.

Sounds like the right way to innovate. Launch and learn. And the right way to run late/early (infrequent) service on snowy days. For now, it'd be potentially very wasteful to roll out an untested design, yet this is sufficient to have a test that can also be enough to get us through a tough winter.

"Trying to solve congestion by making roadways wider is like trying to solve obesity by buying bigger pants."--Charles Marohn